The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

ONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK: There app ears to be a less unfavourable feeling re garding monetary affairs, although nothing of Importance has occurred this morning to alter the aspect of the market. The supplies have not been quite so abundant, but the rates nevertheless remain at 8 and 9 per cent. for the negotiation of the best commercial paper. The bills of Messrs Newby, Carson, and Co., of G redism House are stated to have been returned by their bankers. The house has been largely engaged In the East Indian trade, and the failure is supposed to have arisen in consequence of losses in connection With regular business transactions. During the last few days there has been rather less alteration in the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets. Sugar was barely sustained at previous prices. Coffee has been in limited request ; while the operations in tea had been deferred until the Public sales, which take place this day. Rice, fr uit, and saltpetre, have been neglected ; while t allow has been in rather more demand, and, owing to the higher rata ruling at St. Petersburg, quota tations for both present and forward delivery have shown an upward movement. The fail ure o f M r F reder i ck Frankenheim, who has recently been a large speculator in Stock Ex change securities, has been reported. The liabili ties are estimated at £lOO,OOO. He has ad- dressed the following circular to his creditors:— London, Aug. 8. I regret t o i nform you that owing to heavy losses upon the Steck Exchange I have been compelled to suspend PaYMent. Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co. will prepare a statement of my affairs for submission to a eeting of my creditors at the earliest opp or t un it y.— . 4°Ur obedient servant, FRED, FRANRENHEIII. to The gold op era ti ons a t th e B ank of England yes . . p !day afternoon comprised th e w ithd rawa l o f 41 )000 for exportation, and the purchase of £2,000. TWO O'CLooK. tole 4 t Pari s thi s d a y, accor di ng t o M r . R euter ' s gram, the French 3 per Cents. were 66t, 45c. T he English Stock Market has shown thi s morn ing increased symptoms of.heaviness, and the busi tless transacted has been very limited, Consols for 17° ° 40 Y are a little Hater at 88Z- 89, and for the ac. count at 89 916 11.16. The New Threes and Re deced Annuities are 88k ; Exchequer Bills, 25a. to 159. die.; India 5 per Cents., 1031 1041; En. f aced 51 per Cents., 112 ; and the Bonds, 15s, dis. In the Foreign department the few changes that "Ire taken place have ben generally favour, able. Mexican (ex all) have advanced 146 to 281 i; the New Stock is better at 25t 26; Greek Bonds a re also higher, at 231 ; Spanish Passive 29a 1- ; Turkish Consolides 1, at 491 4 ; and the Confederate Loan remains at 75; 76k. In the R a il way Sh are M ar k et the dealings oave been very restricted, and prices have shown Father less firmness. Brighton, and Lancashire and Yorkshire have each declined 10s., and Mid. ILANd and North Eastern (Bee wick), ss. The Foreign and Colonial lines kayo shown little variation. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares :have remained dull. Alliance have receded to 63, Consolidated to London and County to 75f, and Union of London to 50, Discount Corporation have declined to 14k, and East India Irrigation and Canal to 5, Natal Investment Shares are quot e d 1 1 1 1 t preen,, Maritime Credit, 1 . -1 21 prem., and London Engi. Leering and Iron shipbuilding Company, lk 2 preen, BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. a G OVERNMENT FUNDS. u Per Cent. Consols Do A ccount, Aug. 8 ... . N" Per Cent. Reduced e w 3 per Cent BB± 1 1 "°,,,w 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894... A U 0 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — ''''° l l ltities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 — DO,. for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4l 1 " (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — ''e E X I, Murch . June ° cluer Bills, £l,OOO, 3& 31 per Cent. 25 die —. Do £5OO ~ Do £lOO and £2OO " 1 ,-. ll k England Stec, 5/ per Ct. -uo Account .. j„ I P, 815.. x GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. - "ta Stock, 10± per Cent., April 1874 213 "° Account D ° 5 per Cent. J u ly, 1870 i:DO 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 ~., Do Certificates i.,'-'0 tnfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .. I ,'"° 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 Do° 5 1 per Cent., May, 1879 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 b e 1., 1 ., -onds Xl,000 ''''°lnader £l,OOO kt.h.4 • FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. "...Ilan Bonds, 5 per Cent — 4 r , ~ Do 1859 • o b a ' r ' 4 an, 5 per Cent,, Ex. 10 Florins. 13 r ~ ecount _ LtZttiall 5 r Cent 0 4 ± per Cent., 1852-58-60 il tl D O 1863 — Ij llos Ayres 6 per Cent Do Account — Phill per Cent, (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — . t 4 6 per Cent 0 0 ° 'it Pei Cent. — Cub 'otabian er Ce , 6 C P t D 0 per en . t, u 0 per Cent, 1864 Ditlaclor New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — 0 11°11 3 per Cent., 1825 1)p an 7 73i 1011 1001 per Cent.. or'ue:, Second Issue - D O k per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — Ace t D O e Cent., ts 01 1pona .. — , 0 Account.. • . - .,_ . — , Tuat..., i ) - "tlala 5 per Cent. Ita, 183 9 and 1859 IlL;; 41 . 6 per Cent (Maremmana Railway) 1 — o '• ° , 3 per Cent D Account -r. ° 6 per Cent, 1864 0 26 -uo French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c — die 1)0 6 per Cent. Anglo-French .1)• 140 Scrip, £23 paid — dis Moorish New Imperial 5 per Cent 4.1 e,,, Granada D O 2 per Cent. iio Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) 1) 0 Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1864 — ~„ Do do Aug., 1866 — 'erttrian 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Cribarren) Do 4± per Cent., 1862 De Account _ rortuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 — Do Account Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, 62,'3 44 Do Account 47i Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Do 41 per Cent., 1850 .. Do 1860 - Do 3 per Cent 1859 . • Do 5 per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch Do Scrip, £4O paid pm E arlinian 5 per Cent k pc Account `'Panish 3 per Cent D 0 Account 1)0 New Deferred '-'0 Account 1)0 b sive 4,, ° Account . 291 30 p a Ce tof Coup not funded 4, r . th r ,,' Account l2l 1 12 ljush, 4 per Cent. I' ° Scrip, £6O paid — PER ti P, D 0 lizt 6 per Cent. 1854 b° Account 9O _ o °6 Per Cent. 1858 • N 0 Account D 0 4100 Bonds b? 6 Per Cent. 1862 -,,0 Account 410 £lOO Bonds 691 1 1863 Ar t ,;?° e _ :111 tellaaiteed, 4 per Cent.. ..... per Cent. -tio A ce _ I), c . Account .. -- 3 )0 ° per Cent., 1862 11, ( „ A- Cecunt kle r i 1) 0 1 P £3O paid die 1 1 per C ent Dividends on the above payable in Loud on . eigi a •ulte,4l,lt per Cent., E x . 25f ~. D o 4 2 Per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 1 t a i d Per Cent. Certificates Do sec per Cent., 1861 Ex. 25 francs — p ount • eh e t. -fl. .......... '''• AI, ntes, 2 per Cent --, Pieti,_Dollar Bond, 4± per Ct. Ex. 4s. , uoi l t„ ''Sc) 5 per Cent, Ex. 25f 04 , TWO O'CLOCK. I) °ls Money ~,o A ec0 ,,... , •.•... BBl 89 44 Et,e„,7‘••••••• .. e‘ ........ R~p~Eylioicie7r•SENTATION OF PONTEFRACT.—Mr. Isa nc t of Oakworth Rouse, near Keighloy, has co nsen t ed tor -;.,t" for ward as a cand i date at the next general election ntofract, in o pposition to Major Waterhouse, M,P,— cic6ster .Exano.iier• Nom, it 8. rinse" ind left iied bY Le were harnr - ook ea rdaj. rinces° Princ e lee yes - Wi g ht. East yu car, arrived Here e, and to the NC AS i n for th e m ade [e nt of tatioo. drawn r three inuteg ►inut es 5 at th° ,enlbl e , e tour o f the of th e , po sits t qu ite ) thei r Al' ce arm ' n _ eas ed, EP"' froal L owed mar l ; ly a n U. pf t be ere 13° 1 ear' ?I'ill ee lay °U cl, v° pre' area . Faro' l ath se c lf , aV!, orde` cal. BEARE 111ARIMS—This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. Share' Railways. Paid. 18.14, et 10 et et 50 20 Wol., and Str. Val, Blythe and Tyne. flost.,Sleaf.,andMid.Co Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bandon Cornwall Do Do. B (A gets no die A ti ll 6p e.p an.has been paid to B. Dublin Belfast June. Dun„Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh fr. Glasgow. ilasg. and S. Western. C,reatEastern, Ord. stls Ditto A stook ..... Ditto Eastinglian st GreatNorthof Scotland 3reat Northern Do A kook Do B do Gt. S. and W. of Irelam Great Western ........ Do Str Val gua. stock' Lancashire (45 Yorkehirc London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & So'ith Western Ilan., Shof., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do share 3... Metropolitan Midland Do New . Do Binning. & Derby Vid. Gt. W. of Ireland Do. 3 shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwici, Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do North London '~.1t1.~ Do New . North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction. Scottish Central Soot. N. E., Aber. stool' Do Scot. Mid. stook Shrews, and Welohpoo: Shropshire Union South South Eastern South Wales S. York. and River Dun 6taines,Wok.,andWok. Stookton do Darlington Do * • •• Do New, 186 G Taft Vale.. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim Waterford Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Hartlepool HarAR West Midland —Oxford Do Newport Do Hereford 100 all all all all Closing Business Price. done. I f! 9 9i 85 *7 124 125 6 7 35 36 16 17 gl 92 110 112 47 48 7i 7 133 135 15! 151 131 133 92 04 68i 5) 120 120, 68 70 105} 106, 41 43 111} 116 08 89 67 C 8 112 113 1371 138 108 110 54 65 25 26 108 109 65i 6di 95 98 126 129 _4 li P 78 80 104 11 12S 130 39 41 57 59 84 Z 6 92 9.4 103 105 7 8 87i 38} 10i llib 84 06 p 165 170 6 7 tl 3 4 ( [OO 103 1261 4 6 120 19/ 10'i 43 1161 95 34 36 1371 i P BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Closing Shar. Railways Paid. Price. Business done 100 itiantio &St Lawrence all 58 60 sk j Bom.,Barodade.Centlnd 100 col 1(01 100/ I Gn. 5 per ocnt... 20 Do. New 20 Do. E. Shares... 7l part p 201 Buffalo and Laxeriuron all o 54 10 Do. Preference ...... all 74 84 100 Ruffalo,BrantotGodrich 100 75 80 5 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 100 Do. do. July 1, 1873 100 75 ZO 100 Do. do. June 1, 18:..1 100 75 80 st Clcutta.arS.Eastn. (Lim 100 97 99 st Cape Town h Dock Serf! 100 94 96 steak Eastn. Bengal go. 6p. ( 100 101 103 Stook Last Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1( 0 2004 20 Do. do. (1 Ext..... 15 par 1 p 20 Do. do. Ii do. .. 15 par 6 p stock Grand Trunk of Canada 100 19 2) 100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. all 71 73 100 Do. do. deferred...... all CO 63 100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. all 66 68 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 55 57 100 Do. 3d Pref. stock ... all 48 5t 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 43 45 100 Do.4th Pref. stoc... all 27 29 100 Do. do. deferred...... all 26 28 stook Gt.lndiarenia.gua.sp.o 100 101 fO2 20 DO, New gua. sp. 0... 12 par 4p Do. January, 1862 stook Gt. South.of India(Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 98 100 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 91 91 201 Do. New .. . 18 114 10V 100 Do. 6 p.o. '73 withl'opt. all 89 91 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77-8.... all 82 84 10 Indian. Branch Limited 2 4 d 4p stook Madras, guar, 5p.0. .. 100 99 100 994 stook Do. tip. o. Extension 100 92 94 stook Dc.ll d 0........ 100 83 £0 20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2 -- stook Sielb.Corp. 6p. a. Blida. 100 50 slelb. & Ilobson's Bay. all CO 62 100 Do. 7p. c. Hoag. Bds. ali $0 Newßrunswiokzt Canda Class A and B. all 2 5 N.lll.C'da6 po lat pf bds 100 82 84 stock Soinde (100 99 101 stock Do. Delhi l4 4.; 100 99 100 20 Do. ' .%3 9 2 * id St Do. N t43 ; , all 9 0 1(0 Do. stook Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 000 91 95 COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. .Gau.Gov. 6 p.o.Ja. SLJ uly 1877-81 ... .. lOO 95 98 Do. Ap. c. Feb. & dug. 100 100 103 Do. 6p. c.Mar.& Sept. 100 100 Ic2 Do. sp. o. Jan.&July. 100 85 88 Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 85 83 Cape G.Hope, 6 p 0,1873 100 104 106 Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 109 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 107 109 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 111 113 auritius 6 per cent lOO 104 106 Natal Gov. 6 per cent 100 106 108 -. N.8.G0v.6 p.c. J a.&July 100 93 100 Do. 6p. o.Ap. & Oot. 100 N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c.,1861 100 96 £8 —. Du. sp. 04101 to 187 f 100 96} 976 —, Do. d0.,1888 & upwds 100 965 9 7 6 —. New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 -- - Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. a • sterling, 1875. lOO 09 101 Queensland Gev. 6p. c. 100 101 104 103 S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up 100 108 108 .—. Via Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 - - Do. lo Bp.°. Atx&Oot 100 108 j 1095 109 - BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 1 td 611fford Amalgamated.. 33 4 Deven G. Cont,. ( . Tavist.) 1 675 6E6 East Bassett (Mogan). 30 68 7u - -East Clogau Gold Ltd. d East Caradon ...... .... 114.6 28 29 28/ East Carn Brea... 3.4.0 85 81 01. WlRussel (Tavistk ) 8.1:3.0 45 5 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen ; 581 6 8 Great South 'reigns l7s 24 21 G. Wheal Vor (llelston 40 26 28 Grenville liend's-Foot ...... LI ingston Downs 4.18.0 3.1 41 Lady Bertha - - Margaret (sJny Lelant 9i 8 10 Matte Valley. 4 q yndy Iron Ore (Lim : 2j 14 18 N r evr Salon l 9! 75 85 —• !certh Downs 3 14 11 N'.Wh'll3asset(lllo.;an 3.1.0 2 24 \iorth Wheal Crotty ear Consols (St. Blaze>, - - Providence (Uny Lelnt ) 10.0.7 47 42 3outhCaradon(St.Cleer, 14 470 480 S. Carn Brea (Illogan) — - - (.When! Fran. (Mogan ) 18.18.9 45 60 Stray Park ,30.17.6 28 30 ramarSilv.& Lead Min — - - rin Croft 9 175 185 West Basset (Illogan) l5 9 10 .-- W Cr radon (Liskeard) 5 15 17 15 West Seton Wheal Basset (Mogan) 55 875 821 Wheal Buller(Redratli) 10 s 5 28 Wheal Kitty (11Lelant,) 2.0.6 - - Wheal Ludcott „ ..„ 3,5,8 15 2 Wheal MaryAnu ;Lien.) 8 14 18 Wheal &ton . 585 215 225 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 19 21 Wheal Union 4 15 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties. Ext. No. 2, 108 Gt. Western, South Wales, gua. 5 per cent., 102 Gt. Western, Wt. Midland, Oxford, 2d guaranteed stook, 120 i West Mid., Newp. 5 per cent. pf. rd. at 5 per cent. pm., 102 London, Chatham, and Dover a per cent. pref.,o3 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern 41 per cent., 92k FOREIGN RAILWAY& Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) t.Y.ca. 7 per cent., lei Western and North-Western of France, 301 FOREIGN 2.11NE9. St. John del Rey (Um,), 38; Yudananautana of 4. Australia, lim. , 21 BAN 44. Alliance (lim.). 63 Ditto, now, 57i Anglo Austrikn, 7} Bank of Egypt, 29ã 30 Bank of London, 171 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, Ditto, new, 37 Consolidated Bank, lira., 10; English and Swedish, lim., 16 European Bank, lira., 13i Ditto (X 56), 8 Imperial Bank of India, China, and Japan, lint., 61 Imperial Ottoman, lei Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira" London Bank of Mexico and S. America, lira., 61 London and Colonial (lim.),llj it London and County, 75i London Joint Stock, 481 London and 11 estminster, 05} Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, lin, 261 &lade, Puniaub, and Delhi, lira., 121 Union of Australia, 54 Union of London, 60 Bombay Gas, Iitn.,;S MISCELLANE(M S , Commercial Union; Insurance,:B3= Continental Un',on Gas, lim., V Discount Corporation, 14} East India Irrigation and Canal, 8 Fore-Areet Warehouse, lim., 7 Ge:i.'Credit and Finance of London, lira., 6i liome and C A ssurance, lim , Hudson's Bay, is _ Imperial illerCantilc Credit A sso., lira., 8 1 International Financial society, 1im.41 al 4 Irligatlon (Canal Cavoltal ian ur), Ditt',„, 6 per cent. Bonds, rodom. 1870, issued 90, 85 . 1 Jos:At Stock Discount, lira.. 64 t land Credit of Ireland, Jim., 4 Land Securities, lira, 54 London Financial Association, Um., 24 54 Ditto, new, 101 London General Omnibus Company, 2i London ras rrigProvincialation lea Marine, an ua, 3 1 1 il4d __ Ditto, new, 191 Milwall Iron Works. 51 National Discount Company, lira, laf Oriental Commercial, lim., 10i 10 Oriental Inland Steam, 31 Ottoman Financial Association, lim., sk Peninsula and °Venial Steam, 80 Smith, ana Co., lim., 5 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance), lim., Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada, 5t Universal Marine, Insurance, lini.4s West India and Pacific Steam, lion, 131 stook stook stook 20 stook 60 100 stook Wife—One day last week he took up a knife to me. A constable—l saw the prisoner throw a pail of water over his wife and then threaten to knock her about with the pail. Sho was lying on the pavement, and when she got up, the prisoner made a rush at her. Mr Tyrwhitt—l shall order the prisoner to find two sure ties in the sum of £2O each to ktep the peace for three months, and as he takes nothing home for his family this will not injure them. ROBBING A CONTRACTOB.--Wlll. Cromwell, a labourer, in the employment of Mr Docura, an extensive contrac tor for gas and water works, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with stealing some lead pipe, the property of his employer. It appears that the pipe being missed yesterday from the works going on in Wardour-strect, George Smith, a ganger in Mr Docura's employ, gave a piece to a constable, who traced that some lead had been sold at a marine store dealer's in St. Anne's-court, which corresponded with the piece; and on the marine store dealer, Mr Jelley, seeing the prisoner he at once recognised him as the man ho had twice bought lead pipe of yesterday. The prisoner was then given into custody. Mr Robert Drummond, foreman to Mr Docura, said the works going on in Wardour-street were for the Chartered lias Company, and that Mr Docura had thirty gangs of men in different parts of London, and that they had had numerous robberies of a similar kind of late by workmen. It was the wish of Mr Docura, as an example to others, that the case should go to a jury. The taking away the pipe had caused a heavy claim for damage to be sent in to Mr Docura. Mr Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner, who pleaded guilty, for two months with hard labour. THAMES. MR STANLEY ON THE FL RIOUS DRIVING NUISANCE —Thomas Stanley and Francis Maria Stanley, man and wife, were charged with being drunk, disorderly, and furious driving. Daniel Cole, a police-constable, No 237 K, said a large number of persons were collected in the Mile End-road, to witness the return of an amphibious vehicle, a boat rigged like a ship, and mounted on a carriage, called the Fairlop. The prisoners, a child, and two other persons were in a cart drawn by a high-spirited horse. The prisoner, Thomas Stanley was proceeding at the rata of thirteen or fourteen miles an hour, and put many persons in danger. Ile was mounted on horseback, and galloped after the cart. He called upon the male prisoner to go slower, but he continued at the same furious pace until be reached the Earl Grey public-house, where he stopped him. Both pri soners were intoxicated. The woman attempted to rescue her husband when he was in custody. Tho prisoners expressed their regret for what had happened, and said they had been to Chigwell and lost their way. They followed another cart. Mr Bowdler, the second clerk, said the practice of furious driving in the Mile-end and Bow-roads was a dangerous nuisance. Mr Paget fined the male prisoner /Os., and discharged Mrs Stanley. Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market unchanged. Sales, probably 5,000 bales, SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Aug. 9.—Wind this day at noon—South. West ; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with some rain. CARDIFF, Aug, B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—John Cock rell, for Martinique. BRISTOL, Aug. B,—Wind S,W,—Arrived—Newington, from Quebec. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. B,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Peter Kraeft, from Demerara. CLYDE, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Flowing Sea, from Quebec. NEWPORT, Aug. S.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Agrippine, from Sierra Leone—Andromache, for Jamaica. Sailed— R IP, for St Thomas. HULL, Aug. B,—Wind NAV,—Arrived—Rapid, from Rio Grande. FALMOUTH, Aug. 9.—Wind S.—Arrived—Neptune, from Akyab—Justa, from Havanuah—Amalie, from Ham burg for Rio Grande. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, August 9—Ansunian, from Trinadad—Albion, from Kurraches—Jantje, from Christianstadt—Agida, from Quebec—Alarm, from Smyrna—Caledonia, from Archangel—Napoleon, from Gravelines—Georgiana, from St. Petersburg—Avance from Sundswall—Lady Gordon, from Archangel—Anna Gertrude, from Bandholm—Furet, from Gravolines—Glory, from Jersey—Longo Mena from Cronstadt—Devonshire, from St. Kitt's—Baron Holberg, from Sundswall—Ann Casharine, from St. Lucia. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed.—Constantine, from Havannah, for London. Sailed.—Leon Hayminde, for Valenoia—and most of the outward bound. CAPTAIN SEMMES ON THE WARRlOR.—Visited the Warrior. The Governor and suite, and a num ber of naval and other officers, civilians, and ladies, visited her by appointment at the same time. The Warrior is a marvel of modern naval architecture, and for a first experi ment may be pronounced a success. She is a monstrous impregnable floating fortress, and will work a revolution in shipbuilding. Wooden ships, as battleships, must go out of use. With this single ship I could destroy the entire Yankee fleet blockading our coast, and this is the best illus tration I can give for the necessity of this revolution in shipbuilding.—Cruise of the Alabama; and Sumter by captain Semmes. OUTRAGE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.--. 011 Fridays in Wolverhampton, two men from Liverpool, who said their names were John O'Malley and Richard Han bury, and were travelling drapers, were each convicted of insulting a respectable married woman, the wife of Mr George Thompson, a clerk in the service of the Great Western Railway Company in Wolverhampton, and using obscene and blasphemous language in a -railway train on that company's line on the previous night. Mr Spooner, the stipendiary magistrate, in addressing the prisoners, said :—" If it was not that I wish to spare the lady whom your have so grossly insulted from hating to appear again in court and repeat her tale, your conduct has been so Lad that I would send you for trial. As it is I will give you the highest penalty in my power. You are each fined £5 and costs, In default, you will be imprisoned three months with hard labour." The complainant was travel ling in the same carriage with the prisoners, whose con duct was the most gross short of actual assault.—Shef field Daily Telegraph. . CHLOROFORM ACCIDENTS.—The heart's action is stopped, and its right cavities engorged, not on account of the action of chloroform on the heart, but the action of chloroform on the lungs. If, in one hundred ex• , periments on dogs, rabbits, &0., poisoned by this agent, wo find this remarkable fulness of the right cavities, an anteeior or antecedent condition has been overlooked, viz,, that this gorging of these cavities and the cavas, is only a species of back current or retnora, caused by the lungs (in a state of paralysis) not receiving or transmitting this blood. The heart, as a matter of every day observation in animals, so far from being narcotised, is dilated, and strives actively, but in vain, to push forward the large volumes of blood arriving through the veins of the system. The heart is decidedly ultitnum mortens In these cases—indeed, tome good conti nental physiologists explain the deaths from chloroform by saying there is over-stimulation of the heart I This is probably not true, however, Comparing rather, one group of facts with other groups of facts (systematising our experi ence), the error of the hasty generalisation that paralysis of the heart is the cause of death, is now at once made obviens. These coincidences in practice illustrate best some of the popular errors of watching the pulse, adopting as infallible some sort of balloon or inhaler—giving heed to every idle fancy, but forgetting the cardinal point to watch the breathing. We now have learned to cure pneumonia without bleeding, which bleedings previously were considered the sine qua non remedy—but they were only the most striking or showy of, a; series of remedies. We used to pass a red-hot iron round the hip joint in " morbus moo," then set it straight and place it in a splint. The red-hot iron got the credit of the cure; it was the most feeling, showy, and important measure, but the undoubted cure is due rather to the splint and readjust ment of the parts, These:ooiucidences, that have so misled some practitioners, abound in practice and the entire theory of chloroform, or ar aesthetics, and till they shall have been discountenanced no advance can be made.— Dr .47icid's IVork on Chloroform. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—Worn-out suf fer.ers may hope for relief from these purifying and strength cf:ing pills after physic and physicians have failed to effect a cure. In all disorders of the stomach, irregularities of the bowels, derangements of the liver, and diseases of the kidneys. these pills will be found especially useful in re instituting order and restoring health. Holloway's pills clear away obstructions, remove poisonous particles from the blood, secretions, and system generally, give purity and regularity to the circulation, tone, and power of the stomach, energy and vividness to the brain. Holloway's pills can be confidently recommended as restoratives of con stitutions shattered and broken up by excessive mental labour, intemperance, inordinate indulgence ) or other hard- I ships, which make the young man old. TIM SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1864. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CRUEL TREATMENT OF A WlFE,—Thomas Marshall, a tall rough-looking fellow, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with assaulting and threatening his wife. The wife—l am the mother of nine children. My husband threw a pail of water over me in front of Mr Squire's shop, in the Tottenham-court-road, where I have stood with a stall for years, and he also told Mr Squires that I had stolen some meat from his shop. He has illuaed ma before and in consequence of his illusage I had to undergo the operation cf having one of my breasts cut off, and was in the hospital for some weeks, and received a little assistance from the court. Mr ryrwhitt—Have you any children ? Wife—l have, and work hard to support them, and am willing to do so as long as ho does not annoy or kick me. Mr Tyrwbitt—You are not obliged to live with such a savage fellow. State Portraits of their Royal Highnesses, PAINTED BY THE DORE JENSEN. Now ON VIEW AT M‘LEA.N'S, IN THE HAYMARKET. The catalogue of the Portraits already taken of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales must, even now, we should imagine, be very considerable. Any one who sauntered into this last season's exhibition of paintings at the Royal Aca demy, will have recognised more than one notable addition to the number of those Portraits. But con spicuous among those latest attestations at once to the popularity and to the comelinees of the Heir to the Crown and his Fair young Bride, were the two remarkable picture s nor on v i e w at Mr. 111'1,ean's well-known studi o i n th e Heymarket. They are incomparably to o ur m i n d th e v e ry finest among all the numerous p or t ra it s o f th e i r Ro;a1 Highnesses that have been yet produced. And they are so—they take thus (in oar estimation) prece dence among all other contemporary portaitures of the Prince and Princess of Wales—at once as works of art and as likenesses, as" counterfeit presentments" of the illustrious originals. They are the works, these two noble pictures, of a Danish artist, emi nent, doubtless, long si nce , i n hi s nat i ve l an d, by right of his unquestiotabJe powers, new we migtt say inevitably, to we can see them in a batter a more reasonable th ug ourselves. though his light, w and d is, that r ot n dis tance than when we first saw teem—high up, at any rate, Jensen'ss, for P r hose "--in the Royal Academy Exhibition, more distinctly than we we "above the recognisel ine, were enabled to do th e n th e man if o ld excel lence hn of e s Theodoreses crtraits of their Royal ig reasons (namely, the better light in which an d th e l esser a ltit u d e Highnesses—portraits, at which they are here at length displayed to view) —portraits for these reasons, really and truly as we may say now for the fist time exhibited, cer. tainly for the first time satisfeztorily exhibited, at Mr. M'Cleaa's in the Hayman et. The Prince's por trait, as here given, is the first that has ever been painted not only of himself but of any illustrious personage whatever, arrayed in the magnificent robes of a knight of the:Order of the Star of India ! The delicate, exquisitely pale blue (almost whitish blue) silk robe of the last created order of knight hood, depending from H.R.H.'s shoulders and trail ing along the dais upon whica he stands forth to view in the easiest of natural attitude. Otherwise than in this distinguishing peculiarity of his cos tume, the Prince is arrayed, according to his favourite wont, in the full uniform of a British general officer—i.e. in scarlet end gold, with other soldierly and princely appurtenances. En circling the neck and pendatt upon the bosom, the star and collar of the glorious order of Indian Knighthood already particularised. In the companion picture, the beautiful young Princess Alexandra, now Princess of Wales to herself and her destined (if life be but spared royal husband) to become Queen Consort of Eng land—in this companion picture of our already queenly-looking young Princess, H,R.11. is robed in a sumptuous velvet dress " deeply,darkly, beautifully blue," that is, in other words, of the true Denmark blue in colour, the velvet texture of the robe and the dark richness of the colotring, being en- hanced or set off by a wonderful rendering— thanks to the skill of the artist's magical brush— a really wonderful rendering, in all its fairy webwork of clouds of gorgeous lace—lace here touched into the semblance of reality in all the nines of its gossamer-like embroidery. Added to this, among the mere accessories to this sump tuous portraiture of the Princess, the artist has de picted some amongst the many marvellous treasures, in the shape of jewellery lavished at the time of her bridal upon the lovely young P:ineess—presents from her Majesty, from his Royal Highness the Bridegroom, from one and anotherof the august per sonages in the two Royal families then about to be allied. A very cynosure among coronets glittering rosplendenty in its pm-eminence among all these treasures Pre%:ious stones of the costliest value, and these disposed in ti' most elaborate and ex quisitely tasteful settings—arot►ndthe neck, upon the bosom, pendant from the shoulderknots, encircling the delicate fingers, twinkling at the waist and about the stomacher ! Altogether, apart from these mere surroundings, adjuncts, or acces sories to2the interest and splendour of these two noble portraits of their Royal Highnesses as painted by the hand of Theodore Jensen—these portraits, viewed simply and solely as portraits, command at once our interest and our lasting admi ration for themselves. Simply as portraits, we repeat, they are the very best that have yet been pro duced. Recognising which—as who can fail to recognise tho fact, who looks upon them with a previous knowledge of the originals they are designed to represent it cannot be a matter of surprise to learn that the list of subscribers to the engravings of these two pictures, engravings now in active prepara tion, is a list that grows from day to day with unaccustomed rapidity, even in the instance of State Portraits of the highest personages in the realm under the Sovereign. "ON MODERN COST UME." —Such is the title given to a brochure recently issued by E. Moses & Son, of the Minories. The great object of its gratuitous publica tion will at once suggest itself to the mind, but the author has so ingeniously blended the literary element with his commendations of the firm and its manufactures, that if it m ay not be pronounced to rank among the "literary curto sities of the age, at all events it is an advertising curio sity," even in the year '64. One thing is also certain, that the information conveyed in its pages—which aro elegantly wr itt e n, and well interspersed w i th live l y anec d o t e — canno t be had at a n y sho p g ra tis. The essay commences with a no tice of the national costume s o f th e Greeks, Romans, o f course, be seen in the Mincriee. E g yptians , & c., followi ng brief ext ra cts will convey an idea o f the style and sco p e of veryti me; ens of which may, th e p am phlet:--" Our modern fashions always run into extremes. At the beginning of this century an amorous swain was delighted to see the and now the waist of a young on a level with her shoulders ; lady of 18 is as long as that The vast bonnet once pro jected so far in front that it Was like peeping down a lane wartihsterefghr his lady t.gi.ai l i :v n e l t a al :l o a s , t B. if you tried to see the face. Then came the little bonnet, like a small cap, on the back of the head, threatening to fly away at the first puff of wind, Now the bonnet is brought more forward, loaded with ornaments , t and raised like a helmet with a sharp peak. The fashions changed just as before some trivial incident, s i i : i obstinately a wi d ow : i d n e v p e e n n t d e e a n independent the e f rapidly with our ancestors as they do with us." Again. o Kings "Sometimeschanges a n d ic 112 a t ana Queens fashionmoment m gei nv aetsi i t ywn h hda a yey t r s 0 me sudden impulse of dis llow starched ruff; but as she had a hand in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, And Went to the gallows with a yellow' ruff round her neck, the fashion died with the in ventress. )31ack satin was once in vogue; but, as Mrs yellow dis gust. Mrs Turner, oManningt in woreec. it on the gallo ws, no lady of fashion has w ~ 4( On what appar ent tr i fles the whole cha racter of a costum e —nay, the very c haracter of the wearer —may depend , when good taste is whol ly depart ed from ! Fashion is regar ded as the sole test of p r opriety , If a coat collar be the eighth of an inch too broad or too narrow for the latest mode, or the two waist buttons on the back of the coat be too ne i g hbourly or too distant, or if the co a t be t oo s wallow-tailed , or have too broa d a termination, we laugh incontinen tl y at the wearer. That which to-da y is heroproprietyistoemorrow p ure ly l u dic r ous. becomes a pitiful' Guy,'—a figure for a pantomime , —if hie dress be out of f as hi on. H ow neces eery it is, then, to be careful i n the ch o i ce of one ' s ta il or I" S ever al apt anec d o tes are given of Gentle man G eor g e IV. Thetheperfection greatest a o f eo o r th e following and and Brummeli, g from Lady Morgan— vet, don't know which to admire the most, the cutting sar casm of the lady or the use to which it has now been put:— Lord Anglemea was once ris great a toilet-model to the Princellegent (afterwards George IV,), as Beau Brummell. Lady Morgan records an amusing conversation with his lordship. "Lord A . ngleeett,' said her ladyship, " some ad mire you as Lord Lieutenant, some for .our heroism ; but Lord A.— I admire you for --" " For viehat, Lady Mor -. for the cut o gan ? ' Lady M. f pour coat. Who i.e your tailor I" In these days this question put to any remark ably well-dressed man is pretty suret o be met with Lett one answer-Ish y ich we leave to the sa g a city of the reader, A Very pleasant half .hour, however, may be spent in the perusal of this brochure from the Mineries , ACCIDENT AT A RAILWAY STATION.—.A fatal accident occurred at the Chelmsford station of the Great Eastern Railway yesterday morning. Mr. Frank Snell was walking aloug the line towards the station on the 'down side, with a small hamper in his hand, and when he was a short distance from the station he was knocked down by the mail train from London, which is due at 10.15 a.m. The train passed over his body, mangling it in a shocking manner. The driver. on seeing Mr. Snell, blew his whistle, but tbo deceased, who was rather deaf, probably did not hear it. He was highly respected in the neigh bourhood. The Nightingale Fund, The committee of the Nightingale Fund met at 5, Clifford-street, on the 27th July, when the annual accounts and reports for the year ending the 24th June were presented. It appeared that fifteen probationers were undek training at St. Thomas's Hospital, fur permanent hospital nurses. Eight had completed their proba tionary term during the past year, two had been dismissed, and one had resigned. Altogether 34 probationera had left the school to take service in various hospitals and infirmaries. The demand for trained hospital nurses had in creased and was even greater than could be supplied, but a sufficiency of well qualified candidates was not always forthcoming. The committee had no difficulty in finding situations for their trained nurses at competent salaries. At King's College Hospital, under the superin. t en thoce of the authorities of the St. John's-house Training Institution for Nurses, the school for training midwifery nurses to be employed exclu sively among - the poor had made satisfactory progress. The women had completed their training during the past year. These were employed nearly all in country parishes with the sanction of the resident clergy and medical men, and either under their immediate direction or that of some resident lady. In some cam individuals, and in others the Parochial MissioeAssociatioe,had become responsible for their maintenance. The regulations for the admission of candidates of both classes, and other information may be ob tained from the secretary, 11, Lombard-street, RC. Course of Exchange,—Yesterday, Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam — 12 1 Antwerp - 25 70 Brussels — 25 70 Haniburgu Paris Short. 25 20 11 19 12 E 2 12 2 25 75 25 75 13 101 25 30 25 77f 25 80 120/ 11 87i, 11 90 311 Ditto Marseilles — 25 70 Frankfort on Maine — 120$ Vienna Trieste Petersburgh 3l Berlin Madrid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina Lisbon Oporto 48 48k 25 72i 25 75 25 75 25 72j 25 75 25 77i 51i 52 48k . 25 80 25 80 25 80 25 821 25 82± 25 821 52 62k The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Victoria (London) Dock Company was held to-day, Mr. Charles Morrison in the chair. The report, which was adopted, stated, that the bill for author ising the amalgamation of the London and St. Katharine's Docks, which contains the requisite powers for carrying into effect the agreement made between the Victoria (London) Dock Company and Messrs. Peto, Betts and Brassey, having receive d the Royal Assent, it became unnecessary to prop secute the bill , promoted by the Company ,for that purpose, and it has accordingly been dropped. By the agreement with Messrs Peto, Betts, and Brassey, those gentlemen have the option of com pleting the purchase of the dock and other property of the company, either in the month of August, or on the Ist January next. They have informed the Board that they elect to postpone the completion to the latter date. On the Ist January therefore they will pay for the company's stock at the rate of £lO7 10s per cent., and for the company's shares at the price of £1 103 premium, in addition to the sum paid up or paid in advance of calls on each share. The shareholders will receive, .n addition, the usual half-yearly,divi dend at the rate of 54 par cent. per annum. The lessees will have the option of giving, and the shareholders of receiving, in lieu of payment in cash, the 4 per cent. debenture stock of the Amal gamated London and St. Katharine's Dock Com panies, at such a price as may be agreed on, but the acceptance of such stock in lieu of cash Will be optional with each shareholder. The directors will receive from the lessees any proposal which they may think proper on this subject, and will com municate the same to the shareholders in time for their decision before the Ist January. The Hirnok of Pesth states that the mountaineers of the district of Neidra, and particularly those of Valeska and the neighbourhood, are reduced to such misery from the bad harvest of last year and the unfruitfulness of the present season, that they are obliged to live on the leaves of trees and roots. Subscriptions are being made for their relief. THE METRIC SYSTEM.—An Act of Parliament has just been printed to render permissive the metric system of weights and measures. It recites that for the' promotion and extension of our interaal as well as our foreign trade, and for the advancement of science, it is ex pedient to legalize the use of the metric system of weights and measures. It enacts that, notwithstanding everything contained in any Act of Parliament to the contrary, no contract or dealing shall be deemed to be invalid or open to objection on the ground that the weights or measures ex pressed or referred to in such contract or dealing are weights and measures of the metric system, or on the ground that decimal subdivisions of legal weights and measures, whether metric or otherwise, are used in such contract or dealing. In a schedule annexed to the act the equivalents of metric weights and measures are set forth. ST. DAVID'S CATHEDRAL.—There is every pros pect now that the restoration of this ancient cache. dral, which has been in a dilapidated state for many a score of years past, will be at once proceeded with. A meeting of the Restoration Building Committee has been held, at which four tenders were submitted for carrying out the four divisions of the work, the totals being as follows :—G. Pol lard, £13,990; Hood and Son, £:5,813; T. Williams, £16,639; James and Price, £17,384. The committee ac cepted the tender of Mr G. Pollard, and it was determined that the first division, comprising the lower part of the tower and the choir, and the fourth division, comprising the dry areas and drains, should be first completed before commen o!ng the other two divisions. This will involve an expendi ture of £3,978. and it was reported at the meeting that the subsciiptions already promised amounted to £8,309. St. David's is the mother church of Wales, and the restoration is looked upon with general favour throughout the princi pality. The hon. secretaries of the restoration fund are Mr C. Allen, Tenby, and the Rev. Canon Thomas, Steynton, Milford. HAYES COMMON AGAIN ON FIRE.--On Sunday considerable alarm was occasioned by what appeared to be a very extensive fire, and which was visible over the whole of the metropolis. Mr Henderso n , o f th e L ondon Fire Brigade, and the conductors of the Prince of Wales' Volunteer Fire Brigade, New - cross, with numerous parish engines, started for the scene of the conflagration, on reach ing which it was ascertained that the furze on Hayes-com mon, near Bromley, was in flames. There was no water to be obtained, and a stiff breeze prevailing, the flames spread like wildfire. Efforts were made by the police and others to extinguish the fire, but it was found impossible to do anything but allow it to burn itself out, and about four acres of furze were consequently destroyed. This is the second time the common has been on fire within a few days. LEAPING FROM A TRAIN.—On Saturday e ven i ng Joseph Nixon, a lad between 12 and 13 years of age, the son of Mr William Nixon, a master carter, residing at Edge-hill, was killed at the Huyton station of the London and North-Western Railway. It appears the poor boy was sent to pay some club money for his brother, at the Queen's Arms Inn, at Huyton, and that he was afterwards to remain for some time at the house of his uncle, Mr Joseph Watkin, builder, of that village. At Edge•hill he by mistake got into the train which leaves Lime-street at 6 45, and which does not stop at Huyton, instead of the one that leaves at 7 o'clock. On reaching Huyton station he per ceived the error he had made, and, though the train was dashing along at full speed, he unfortunately opened the carriage door and jumped out just as the train had passed the platform. He fell upon his head, and was picked up insensible and bleeding profusely. He was taken into one of the waiting-rooms, and Dr. Gorat sent for. That gentleman was immediately in attendance, but medical aid was of no avail, the little fellow's skull being fearfully fractured. He died in less than an hour after the accident, not having spoken or regained consciousness. The body was conveyed to the Queen's Arms Inn, where it awaits a coroner's inquest, and Mr Watkin then came to Liverpool to bring the melancholy tidings of his nephew's death to his parents. It seems that there were several persons—two of them men—in the same compartment of the carriage with tho boy, and, most extraordinary to relate, none of them atteWpted to prevent him committing an act which was almost certain to result in his destruction.—Liverpool Mercury , The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2i per mills pm., and the short exchange on London is 25.20 per £1 sterling. On comparing, these rates with Ulu English Mint price of £3 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is rather more than I.llth per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advises from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mar and the short exchanv on London is 13.51 per £1 sterlin:;. Standard gold at the Disglish Mint price is, therefore, about The British Archaeological Associa lion. IrswrlcEt, Aug '. 8. The twenty-first annual congress of the E :ritish Archaeological Association commenced this d ay at Ipswich. There was a great influx of archoeol ogists by the various railway trains in the morei,ig., and at three o'clock a numerous assemblage coll. scte d in the council chamber of the Town-ball, wh are the members of the association and visitors we )r0 re ceived by the mayor and corporation. Among "those present were—Mr Tomline, Mr. Cobbold, M.P., Mr Pettigrew, Mr T. WI igh, Mr Planche, Mr. Gordon Hills, Mr Levien, P Er G. It. Wright, Mr Previte, Mr Godwin, and a many others of the leading members of the associ ation, besides a number of clergymen of the neighbour hood, and a large sprinkling of ladies. The MAYOR, in expressing his gratification at the visit of the Ardm3logical Association to Ipswich, regretted they had not come so;ne years earlier, to have preserved from destruction many of the ancient monuments of Ipswich, of which few now remained. The town formed, however, an ex- cellent centre for excursions, and objects of grea interest to the antiquary, and he hoped they would spend an agreeable and interesting week. It would be his endeavour and that of the corporation to give them every possible assistance. Lord Houghton, the president of the meeting last year at Leeds, was unable to attend, therefore the usual formality of resigning the chair to his !nieces.. sor was dispensed with. Mr PETTIGREW, as the oldest vice-president of the association, and one of its original founders, in troduced Mr Tomline, M.P., to the meeting as their president. He said the time was gone by when it was necessary to speak of the value of such asso ciations, as it was now generally admithd ; and the work they had accomplished in diffusing a taste for arcbm)logical researches, and in preserving the monuments of past times, had thrown much light on obscure parts of the history of the kingdom. He concluded by pointing out the special qualifications of Mr. Tom line for the office of their president, to which he had been elected. Mr. TOMLINE then took the chair, and, after wel coming the association to the ancient kingdom of East Anglia—where the Roman, the Saxon, and the Dane had left their footprints—he proceeded, in a very eloquent address, to laud arclat alogiea pursuits, and to indicate some of the many advan tages that had accrued from the efforts of the asso ciation since their first meeting at Canterbury, 20 years ago; amongst which were the formation of associated local societies, which aided materially to advance the progress of knowledge. He took a comprehensive view of the connection of archeology with physical science, and of the mutual aid whick they gave to each other. The rapid progress of knowledge at the present day, he observed, might be in a great degree attributed to the freedom of thought of the existing generation, for though our philosophers and men of science do not surpass, even if they equal, Plato or Galileo in intellectual capacity, they possessed the advantage of greater intellectual freedom. Mr. COBBOLD, M,P., moved, and Mr. GODWIN seconded, the thanks of the meeting to the presi dent for his able and eloquent address. The motion was carried by acclamation. The MAYOR directed the attention of the meeting to a relic of ancient times that was hanging at the top of the staircase of the Town-hall. It was a " ducking stool," into which the female scolds of Ipswich were formerly fastened, and dipped into water to cool their angry passions. The meeting was then brought to a close, and the company proceeded, under the guidance of Mr. Phipson, one of the local secretaries, to examine some of the antiquities of Ipswich, including the town library, an antique house, called " Sparrow's House," the churches, and the museum. In the evening there was a meeting at the Assembly Rooms for reading papers and discus• sions. The programme for the week comprises excursions every day to objects of interest in the neighbour hood. To-morrow Bury St.Edmund.'a will be visited, where the members of the association will be re ceived by the mayor and corporation at the Guild hall, and they will after wards examine St. Mary's Church, the Norman Tower, St. James's Church, the Abbey ruins, Moyses Hall, and Abbot's Bridge. The excursion will be prolonged by visits to Hen. grave Hall, Risby, and Little Saxham, and on the return to Ipswich there will be an evening meeting for reading papers and discussion. On Wednesday there is to be an excursion to Colchester, where the mayor and corporation will receive the archaeologists, who will find ample occupation in inspecting the various antiquities in the town. On Thursday there will be an excursion to Parham Hall and Church, thence to Bruisyard Church, to Denning ion Church, and to Framlingham, concluding with. a visit to the president at Orwell Park in the evening. The excursion for Friday includes Woodbri.lge, Ufford Church, Bnttry Abbey, and Orford Canis. On Saturday, Sudbury, Long Melford, Lowenham, and Hadleigh, and Little Wenham Hall will be visited, and the congress will conclude with an evening meeting. The Loss of the Corinthian Steamer. OFFICIAL REPORT. To the Right lion. the Lords of the Committee or Privy Council for T:ade. My Lords,—l have the honour to report that I have, in conjunction with Captain Harris and Baker, as Nautical Assessors, held an inquiry into the loss of the steamship Corinthian, off the coast of Portugal, on the 3d of July last. The Corinthian was an iron screw steamer, built at Greenock. in 1855, of 1,034 tons, registered at Liverpool, and owned by Mr James J. Bibby and others. She was commanded by Mr John Wheaton Goff, and had a crew of 32 hands. She sailed from Oporto, thoroughly equipped, on her home ward voyage on the 3d of July, at 1,45 p.m., with a cargo of cattle, wine, fruits, wool, &o. She bad also onboard four passengers, two of whom were to be, if practicable, landed at Vienna. The weather was clear, with a fresh northerly wind and a strong westerly swell. After leaving Oporto the vessel was steered a N.N.W. course for from five to seven miles, when a course was shaped N. by E. E. along the coast towards Vienna. The speed of the ves sel is variously estimated at from five to six knots. At 5.40 p.m., according to the evidence, the Raven Rock is alleged to have been passed, but there is some little discrepancy in regard to the distance from Lit. The Raven and the St. Bartholomew's Rocks form a dangerous group, front ing the coast, a little to the southwa . rd of the river Neiva. Three-quarters of an hour after passing the Raven Rock, and while pursuing the same course the vessel struck. The engines were kept going a-head, and cattle were shifted forward to bring the vessel on an even keel, and the injection hose having been choked, the engines necessarily stopped, and do not appear to have been subsequently moved, and every effort to get her off by making sail failed. About 2 a.m. he ship floated on the rise of the tide, and sank about an hour afterwards, dur ing which time the tide and the westerly swell appear to have drifted her towards the shore. No lives were lost, and some of the live stock were saved. The evidence of all the witnesses belonging to the vessel, who were before the court, tends to show that the Corinthian struck upon a danger not laid down upon any chart or mentioned in any sailing direc tions for the coast of Portugal. This conclusion is strongly confirmed by the testimony of Mr John A. Perry, Com mander of the steamer Braganza, who on the day following went down to the wreck to render assistance. Leaving his own vessel at a distance of two and a half miles N.W., he proceeded to the wreck, and found the masts' heads above water and a portion of her taffrail visible. Having left a lighter by her to save property, he returned. On reaching his own ship, which had been nearly stationary, he found that his mate had obtained irregular soundings, ranging from 4to 12 fathoms. He then proceeded to Vienna, and anchored outside the bar, and a pilot came on board, who informed him that he had, in all probability, passed over the same danger on which the Corinthian had grounded, but a rising tide and his light draught of water had saved him. From this it would appear that th e danger in ques tion is well known to the On the sth, while at anchor, Capt. Perry, who appears to be a very intelligent ositionof ffi ocer, took bearings of the wreck, from which he has con structed a very neat chart, showing the precise p the wreck where she now lies, and which I now append to this report for the information of your lordships. Upon this evidence I have felt myself justified in acquitting the master of the Corinthian of any default in the loss of his vessel, and have accordingly returned to him his certificate. In doing so I have deemed it my duty to point out to him that, in the opinion of m yself and of my assessors, he navi gated bis ship too near the lsnd in the vicinity of the St. Bartholomew Shoals; and having failed to take any bear ings when the vessel was stranded upon this dangerous rock, its true position is left to this moment very doubtful. —I have, &0., T. S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate, Liverpool, We concur in this report, HY. HARRIS, 1 Nautical Assessors,lt. B. BAKER,) SECOND EDIT lON BUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,—This Day WOLVERHAMPTOiT RACES—Tms DAY. (Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) LADIES' PURSE. Queen of Trumps ........... Nemo 2 Belle of th e B a ll.. .............. 3 Eight ran. NURSERY HANDICAP. Contract British Quee n ............ 1 Sympathy ........ Eight ran. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALLS'_LIsr EVENING. WOLVERHAMPTON STARES. Even on Dollar (taken) GREAT EEOR HANDICAP. 4to 1 eget East Lancashire (t a k en ) 7to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken) ST. LEGER. 7 to 4 agst Blair Athol (offered) 3 to 1 agst General Peel (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Baragah (taken) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—MONDA Y . For the Ebor Handicap 4 to 1 was the highest offer against East Lancashire, and anything over 8 to 1 was taken freely about Caller Ou. There was a commission in the market to back Knight of Snowdon for the St, Leger, but it was only partially executed, at 25 to 1. Closing prices : EBOR HANDICAP. 4to 1 agst East Lancashire (take 5 freely) Bto 1 agst Caller On (taken and offered) 11 to 1 agst Welcome (takes) 100 to t agst Hymettus (taken and offered) 100 to 8 agst Alabama (taken) ST. LEGER. 14 to 1 agst Baragah (taken) 25 to 1 aget Knight of Snow don (taken and wanted) RACING FIXTU: fRES FOR 1864., Lewes O ill• 5 Huntingdon Wolverhampton Reading Egham Dover .. lB Oxford .. 18 Yarmouth York August..• Plymouth Lichfield ....... 29 Devon and Exe'an. ..., 30 Stockton .......... 30 Derby .. k ......... 31 SEPT] Weymouth 1 Baden-Baden Warwick September 6 Bridgwater 8 Leicester 8 Doncaster :MEER. Brecon ~ Richmond Royal Caledonian Hunt 21 Monmouth. Manchester Autumn NewmarketFirst October 27 Railway Traffic Returns for the Week. Miles Opened. Receipts. ti 1864. 1863. 2,411 2.378 892 792 2,265 1,719 8 , 0 89 7,969 20,541 18.045 1.752 1,556 351 317 330 427 232 257 555 545 2,174 1,639 4 / 9 351 1 , 353 1.380 1,842 1,866 256 187 3 ,380 3,171 9,135 8,776 3,233 3,133 10,657 9,5:3 34,635 32,626 38,032 33,310 585 2,032 361 362 9,451 8,493 72,151 67,297 235 1,868 1,418 2,321 jl.BlB 1,586 3,20 J 120 43,973 38,090 ISS 183 116 94 785 8:6 118,071 108,561 2,221 2,183 29,907 28, - , 87 29,669 29,569 6,2 4 6 372 2,7 k 0 1,480 19,367 17,3 i 5 1,503 1,415 1,571 1,26: 2,.60 1,073 49,.83 45,503 4.186 4,180 1,7:8 1.460 2,711 2,519 Belfast and N, Counties 136 Belfast and County Down 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B Bristol and Exeter l2l} Caledonian 252 Cambrian 9l Cockermouth & Working - ton Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock, &Passage... Cork and Youghal „•• 32 Cornwall 651 Deeside . 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 Dublin and Meath Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 9ll Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 Furness, &o 5O Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union Great Northern 353 Great North of Scotland 6B Ut. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 712 Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3 731 Great Western 10563 Hull and Hurnsea l3 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno lO6l Inverness & Perth Junction 119} Irish North-Western 145 Kent Coast 27 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 Limerick and Ennis... 242 Limerick and Foynes 261 Llanelly 462 London & North-Western London and Blackwall of London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &B. Coast 2612 London, Chatham, & Dover 72* Do. Metropolitan Extension 111 Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh hlanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9} Maryport and Carlisle 2B Metropolitan 32 Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 Monkland 7ll Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 4l North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Oswestry and Newton 5O Scottish C Rhymney entral 9941 Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon South-Eastern 306 Taff Vale ..... 67 Ulster Vale of Clwyd. Vale of Neath..... 43f Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 271 W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO Whitehaven Junction l3 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 1211 L'34k 711 329 1054 Austrian B2B Bahia and San Francisco Belgian Eastern Junction 2 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 181 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish lOBl Eastern Bengal Eastern of Prance .... 1135 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Central of Belgium lB Great Indian Peninsula 553 Great Luxembourg 134 Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madras 895} 24 26 Madrid, Saragossa SzAlicant Northern of Canada 94 Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman _ _ - Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1805 . Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 7 7 3 /4 Royal Danish . 69 Soinde lO6 South Austrian .. .. 1527 southern of France .......... 770 Victorian 196 Welland West Flanders 75 W. and N.W. of France . 960 1204 45 5 01 2501 10i 239 k St 6:iu 259 410& 1079/ 9 252 191 91 138 391 751 806 1051 10 15.911 15.029 63,686 57,317 3,528 3,3:5 0,631 8,751 1,038 923 6,569 5,455 6,765 6,710 949 592 4.543 4,375 30,296 30,197 5,722 5,672 2,334 2.121 256 270 3 , 1 34 2.679 395 394 Jo 53 1,c25 76 g 727 4,572 4,990 621 612 1,047 Ea 7 857 106 31,238 30,060 339 302 295 3,714 2,768 1,966 1,921 4,403 2,658 7,185 6,438 1,612 1,806 86,572 P,043 21,159 15,5•4 20,'45 16,072 - 6,6 8 1,84.,8 495 11,128 11,338 134 4,541 4,357 79 533 567 315 8,94' 8,126 447 6,301 5.360 490 1 4 . 4 ,170 20,010 91 2,352 r,1.7 697 55,585 53,805 44 1,416 1,001 4 387 34:3 1713 13?,6/6 128,350 119/ 62,915 67,000 77 582 682 69 105 1471 185 185 1081 110 1302 932 k 1090 1.518 2,272 50,680 47,60 29,06 t 27,088 8 , 83 1 9,743 351 367 1,255 1,171 51,827 45,871 FEARFUL FALL OF A FEMALE INTO THE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS.—Yesterday Mr. Carter, the coroner, received information of the death of Mrs. Martha Matthews, aged 31 years, who resided at 73, Albany-road, Camberwell, which was occasioned under the following frightful circumstances :—lt would appear that on Satur day she came from her door, opposite to which—in the road way—was a cutting about 25 feet deep, belonging to the works of the Main Drainage. Having some curiosity to see the men at work she leaned over the barrier, when she lost her balance, and with a loud scream she was precipi tated head foremost into the sewer. As soon as possible she was brought to the surface in an insensible condition, and conveyed to Saint Thomas's Hospital, where; she was at once attended by Mr Siddall, the house surgeon, who found that her skull was fractured and that she was otherwise so dreadfully injured that she expired in a few hours. The deceased had left behind a family of five young children, and at the time of the occurrence was far advanced ba pregnancy. SEA-SICY IN A TEMPERANCE SHIP.---W e now proceed to Boston, Massachusetts,taking the steamer from New York for some 150 miles, to join the rail which ran into the city. It was a dark stormy evening wh en we embarked, and soon, in consequence of a deluge of rain, we were driven down into the close and unwholesome cabin, the vessel rolling fearfully. It was of rare occurrence for me to feel sea-sick, but that evening I did, and in a state of misery known only to those who are so situated, I asked the nearest nigger present to giv e me some brandy. Ho gr i nn ed and said, " You get no brandy here, mean ; him's a temperums ship." "The deuce it said I; " what am I to do r" " Stop a bit, said he, " I'll get something for you." He immediately returned with a soda-Water bottle full of a dark-looking liquor, which he poured into nay half cup of tea, saying, " Dere, massa, sarsaparilla bero good ting for sea-sickness." I tasted, and found it was excellent brandy. I gave him half a dollar, and requested a little more sar saparilla, which be again poured into ray fresh tea cup, while he held his side with laughter and grinned like a hyena. I found in after-travelling that whenever I had the ill fortune to get on board a temperance ship, that the niggers were always well supplied with sarsaparilla and liquors of every kind.—Musical and Personal Recollections of Henry Phillips. SUICIDE FROM A STEAMER.—About three a.m. on Sunday mor n i ng, while the steamer Rainb o w was on , her passage fr om L on d on f or G rea t Yarmouth, a passen ger was observed by the watch to lay his hat upon the deck and then jump overboard. An alarm was at once raised, but in vain, as the deceased did not again rise to the surface. The suicide took place off Southwold, on the Sutfilk coast. The deceased was dressed in a black tuit, and in the hat was found the following address, without a name M rs, 93, Florence-road, New-cross, Lon don, S.E," The maker's name in the hat was " Both vwEck, Fiorselydown, Broadway, Deptf.,rd." itST. ~~ Fio us° bac° rere is leave a yin° I, and 119 t° Roc ° date' i ota goilE6 ore re D ot leY go and Ac ed the y at esdaf n0) 16 : 0/ 11.1 Lawr PlY° , Iter r ) tb° 1 th e VPe r s the ,t 0 IL/